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...Tryon and his Australian wife; Lord Tollemache, heir to a brewing fortune; Insurance Broker Nicholas Soames, a grandson of Winston Churchill; Barrister Richard Beckett. When dining alone, Charles favors light meals (one favorite: scrambled eggs and smoked salmon). He does not smoke, keeps fit by jogging in Windsor Park, seldom drinks anything stronger than dry white wine...
...political forces," observes the Sunday Times's Anthony Holden. Yet the very hopes pinned on Charles point up how fragile the royal edifice is. It is still a hereditary monarchy whose worth is at the mercy of all the disasters and disappointments that can befall any family. Britain has seldom been so fortunate in its heirs to the throne...
Griping by and about the junior faculty is part of the day-to-day folklore of the University. Yet while the questions are raised loudly and often, any answers are seldom discussed. Is the administration aware of the complaints? Aware of the undergraduates' concern with the quality of junior faculty teaching? Aware of the junior faculty's wails about the inhumaneness of the system...
Vacancy rates have seldom been lower in desirable parts of cities. Rents are double what they were at the start of the decade: $400-$750 for a one-bedroom unit on Manhattan's tony East Side, almost $300 in Miami and Los Angeles. Says Daniel Rose, chairman of the housing committee of the Real Estate Board of New York, where vacancies in Manhattan are running only 1½% to 2%: "We've never had such pressure." Declares Kathleen Connell, director of housing for the city of Los Angeles: "It has got to the point where if there...
There's a marvelously funny scene in this cheerful Brazilian comedy-based on a novel by Jorge Amado-that depends for its effect on two social elements that would seldom be found together in a Hollywood or even European movie. One is enough permissiveness to allow the filming of nude actors going vigorously through the motions of sexual intercourse. The other that there is enough strictness and propriety so that the niceties of marital faithfulness and the awful pratfall of cuckoldry matter a great deal...